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| Posted on April 22, 2010 by lori |
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Please everyone, DO NOT ATTEND SOUTH UNIVERSITY. It is a horrible school,
extremely expensive and certainly not worth the money. They do have "ground
schools", they are private and that is why the expense is so high, 30k plus
for an Associates, 60K plus for a bachelors. Granted there are many schools
in this country that cost that for one year alone but I would have thought
that doing a degree online would be cheaper because one is not using the
same materials. The only positive about online schools is the ability to
complete your degree that offers you flexibility in a daily schedule. You
don't have to be at school at a certain time as the classes are open 24/7.
However, the teachers hardly teach. You READ A LOT and complete
assignments, but there is little interaction or not the valuable
interaction that a classroom forum offers. In an actual classroom you
benefit from a lecture where in most cases the professor sheds insight into
readings and fellow classmates ask questions that you get to hear. If your
an auditory learner, then this is the way to go. In an online classroom,
your instructors do respond to your assignments but traditionally they
respond by asking additional questions and not really critiquing your paper
to the extent that it should be. You do get to hear from other people in
the classroom but you have to take the time to read all of the responses
and I ask "Do you really get the same effect?".
Anyway, the time, many say faster, but thats only if you go as a full time
student. Be prepared to spend at least 10 to 15 hours in a given week per
class. Do you have the time to spend 30 hours per week if you go as a full
time student at South University? This will help you shave about 6 months
to maybe a year off your degree but many of us have full time jobs and
families to take care of. And in actuality if you go to school at South
University, and do it in a comfortable time frame you could be looking at a
longer period than in a ground school.
When you speak with an enrollment advisor be prepared to be "WOW'd" because
you will be. These are trained salespeople. Their goal is to sell sell sell
you on the school so they meet their quotas. Its a fact, face it. They say
things like "I'm interested in what you want to do" "How do you think you
will feel when you get that degree, good right" "what are your goals" and
that might make you feel like they care about you, but trust me, they
don't. They may go onto pressuring you to go to school, "But I thought you
wanted to get a degree for financial success, or that promotion or to take
care of your darling children?". They care about keeping their jobs and
making more money by the number of students that they seat in a class, and
that is it.
Financial Aid - Ok let's talk Pell Grants - First off you are not eligible
for Pell if you have already obtained a bachelors degree level. Currently
the most you can get is 5350 per school year. However bear in mind that
your spending about 20k per year for this school. BOOKS ARE NOT INCLUDED
WITH TUITION. Financial aid can come by tuition reimbursement but most
companies may only pay 1000 per year. Yes there are student loans but do
you really then want to pay even more for your education? What if you get
into a financial burden, what if you quit school, you will need to start
paying back your loans 6 months after you leave.
If you don't mind working independently, only learning from what you read
and paying a lot of money for school, by all means go to South University.
But if you want a quality education, DON'T attend South University.
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| Posted by great student on March 10, 2011 |
| school is what you make out of it. and you havent made much of it from what it seems. and admissions groups do not have quotas, they are here to help students get into school. no giant check if yo get alot of students in the dooe. for a school that has been around since 1899, they have to know how to do the job. if our goal was to get student in the door and let them fail we would not be around. peopke that fail at school alwase hav a bed experince. the students that are going to grad, will have a great experince. end of story. |
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by South University Graduate on August 10, 2011 |
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I graduated and did not have a great experience at all. Between getting a
new financial aid advisor and new academic advisor with what seemed like
each season change, it was hard to get answers that were not vague.
Received a call 4 months before I was scheduled to graduate (my anticipated
grad date was changed about 3-4 times) to ask how I intended to pay for my
remaining classes since I was out of financial aid?!? Yet this was never
mentioned to me at any point prior. I also received an email scheduling a
class for me two weeks after I had graduated and was then told that I did
not have enough credits. Come to find out, I had more credits then I
needed and was barely offered an apology. If you do attend, I hope that
you are lucky enough to have Dr. Whalen as an instructor as he is one of
the few instructors that reads your responses and papers and offers actual
responses that don't seem system generated. Otherwise, good luck, I had
several "instructors" that should not have been called instructors. |
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